City Housing Panel Plans 100 Low-income Units Briefly

May 14, 1985|The Morning Call

The Bethlehem Housing Authority board last night told authority Executive Director Frank Loretti to do the necessary paperwork to obtain funding to build 100 proposed low-income housing units at the former Parkridge housing complex on the city's West Side.

Support for the new housing units, which are expected to cost $6 million, was expressed in a resolution passed last night by the board.

An authority spokesman said action on the proposed project was taken after the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development had indicated that funds have become available.

The proposed units were described by the spokesman as "modern-looking" and similar in design to the authority's Lynfield project on the South Side. It was not known when construction would begin.

The construction of new units on the former Parkridge sight has been a matter of authority discussion for some time. The property, located south of Broad Street, is now vacant.

The directors also told Loretti to make a preliminary application to HUD for funding a proposed rehabilitation project, also for low-income families. Under that project, the authority would buy 30 existing housing units, rehabilitate and rent them. A cost estimate for the project is not known at this time.